Used by all student-athletes, our new Center for Excellence – which will include our Academic Center, Leadership Center and Nutrition and Wellness Center – will have a significant impact on every current and future Gopher student-athlete.
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new Academic Center will be larger than our current academic area but, more important than sheer size, it will be designed more functionally than our current space. It will feature work rooms, tutoring rooms and video production and technology labs that don’t exist in the current facility.
Our new Leadership Center will completely change how we prepare Gopher student-athletes to lead later in their lives by drastically expanding our current space, which is simply a handful of offices. It will include classrooms, training spaces and a board room for group presentations and guest speakers to enhance our life skills, career planning and leadership coaching programs.
Our new Nutrition and Wellness Center will provide approximately 19,000 gross square feet in one, central location for all student-athletes to eat, learn about healthy habit and bond with each other, a significant improvement over our current system of feeding student-athletes in improvised spaces across several facilities.
In addition to the Center for Excellence, modern practice centers for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball will free up space in existing buildings for Olympic sports, relieving congestion that often creates off-hour practice times and complicates student-athletes’ busy school schedules.